Standing barefoot on an Israeli beach, Hamama Jarban blew her whistle and watched her students race towards the water clutching their colorful surfboards. Each weekend she welcomes enthusiastic would-be surfers to the shore, teaching them how to lie and then stand on their boards. "I am...

European Union leaders began the process of approving an unprecedented stimulus package for their coronavirus-ravaged economies on Friday, aware of the need to deliver help quickly, but still divided over its final size and terms. The 27 national heads of state started a video conference at...

A draft UN resolution would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest and reopen an Iraqi crossing to the northeast to deliver medical supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia, which insisted the Iraqi crossing be...

The recent border clashes between India and China in the Western Himalyas that led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers earlier this week, have prompted a hardening of anti-China sentiment in India that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, cannot ignore. India has traditionally been a non-aligned...